Author: Fernando PicóPublisher: Bridgewater Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Two women, one old and one young, plot to save a runaway slave in 19th-century Puerto Rico.
The Red Comb
Author: Fernando PicóPublisher: Bridgewater Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Two women, one old and one young, plot to save a runaway slave in 19th-century Puerto Rico.
The Red Comb
Author: Fernando PicóPublisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606080644
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
In mid-nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, an old woman and a young village girl conspire to prevent the capture of a runaway African slave.
The Red Comb
Author: The Red Comb
Author: Rhonda BerkowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Red Comb
Author: Developmental Studies Center (Oakland, Calif.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781576211328
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
Author: Osama AlomarPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811225836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Wonderful short stories that sharpen awareness, from a brilliantly gifted Syrian refugee Personified animals (snakes, wolves, sheep), natural things (a swamp, a lake, a rainbow, trees), mankind’s creations (trucks, swords, zeroes) are all characters in The Teeth of the Comb. They aspire, they plot, they hope, they destroy, they fail, they love. These wonderful small stories animate new realities and make us see our reality anew. Reading Alomar’s sly moral fables and sharp political allegories, the reader always sits up a little straighter, and a little wiser. Here is the title story: Some of the teeth of the comb were envious of the class differences that exist between humans. They strived desperately to increase their height, and, when they succeeded, began to look with disdain on their colleagues below. After a little while the comb’s owner felt a desire to comb his hair. But when he found the comb in this state he threw it in the garbage.
Listen To Your Hormones
Author: Abraham Harvey KrygerPublisher: WellnessMD Publications
ISBN: 9780974863405
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Much of the book is dedicated to the benefits of appropriate treatment of women as well as men using testosterone replacement therapy. Citing current research, Dr. Kryger declares that testosterone not only aids in a person'ssex life but also promotes healthy hearts by helping to prevent hardening of the arteries and weakening of the heart muscle. Elderly people with higher levels of free testosterone have improved memories and less age-related senility.
Auntie and the Big Red Comb
Author: Sharon RogersPublisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
For us as children, every Saturday was our hair ritual day. We would wake up, clean the house, and start the practice. We would wash, dry, and straighten our hair. My mom or older sister would braid our hair. As a grown-up, it is my turn. This ritual continued, but it is I who would wash, condition, blow-dry, and braid my niece's hair. It is always a great bonding and learning time. There are special combs for combing and parting our hair. This story is about a little girl named Brittany and her auntie. Brittany knows that when Auntie walks in with her bag with the big red comb and supplies, it is time to do her hair. Brittany also knows that she will be counting, sorting, and making patterns with beads to go on her hair. Auntie believes that when she braids Brittany's hair in love, it will always come out in a beautiful style. It never comes out the same way twice. Not only is Auntie making her beautiful, but she is also teaching her some math skills.
Bulletin
Author: Michigan. Dept. of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Hot Comb
Author: Ebony FlowersPublisher: Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN: 1770464190
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
AN AUSPICIOUS DEBUT EXAMINING THE CULTURE OF HAIR FROM THE RONA JAFFE FOUNDATION AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women’s lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girl’s first perm—a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In “Virgin Hair” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself. It’s a scenario that repeats fifteen years later as an adult when, tired of the maintenance, Flowers shaves her head only to be hurled new put-downs. The story “My Lil Sister Lena” traces the stress resulting from being the only black player on a white softball team. Her hair is the team curio, an object to touched, a subject to be discussed and debated at the will of her teammates, leading Lena to develop an anxiety disorder of pulling her own hair out. Among the series of cultural touchpoints that make you both laugh and cry, Flowers recreates classic magazine ads idealizing women’s needs for hair relaxers and product. “Change your hair form to fit your life form” and “Kinks and Koils Forever” call customers from the page. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers’ stories and ads, which are by turns sweet, insightful, and heartbreaking. Flowers began drawing comics while earning her PhD, and her early mastery of sequential storytelling is nothing short of sublime. Hot Comb is a propitious display of talent from a new cartoonist who has already made her mark.